I have noticed a small problem with intake after migrating to T2.2 RC2.
It appears that I can not set a string field to null if it already had a
value. Here are a few snippets from my configuration files....
intake.xml -
<group name="Person" key="per" mapToObject="Person">
<field name="FirstName" key="perfn" type="String">
<rule name="maxlength" value="50">Maximum Length is
50</rule>
<rule name="mask" value="^[a-zA-Z\s\-]+$">Alphabetic Value
Required</rule>
</field>
</group>
schema.xml -
<table name="PERSON">
<column name="FIRST_NAME" size="20" type="VARCHAR"/>
</table>
My form is initially populated with data from the Person object. The
field "FirstName" has a value. I then delete the value from the field
and submit the form.
After I get the intake tool and retreive the group, I look at the value
of group.get("FirstName").getValue(). It is null. I load my object
(person) from database to make modifications to it. The value of
person.getFirstName() is "John". All is well so far.
This line of code executes to update my persistent object with data from
the group: group.setProperties(person);
After this line of code executes, person.getFirstName() is "John".
Other fields that were changed to non-null values were set properly
during the execution of the method.
After looking through the code a little, I found that
Field.setProperty(Object) will nto eexcute the setter method unless
Field.isSet() returns true. Is this a defect or is there something that
I need to change in the way I am using intake?
